![]() ![]() In particular, art researchers Tim Lapetino and James Orok trace the connection of psychedelic art with Dadaism, Surrealism, Lettrism, and Situationism. Mikhail Bulgakov is the first writer to describe narcotic hallucinations. Whereas the surrealist was fascinated by Freud's theory of the unconscious, the psychedelic artist has been literally "turned on" by Albert Hofmann's discovery of LSD.Īmong the work forerunners of psychedelic art, the following authors and artists can be noted: Lautreamont, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Stanislav Witkevich, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, De Quincey, Terence McKenna, Carlos Castaneda. Both movements have strong ties to important developments in science. Whereas the mechanism for surrealism is the observance of dreams, a psychedelic artist turns to drug induced hallucinations. The psychedelic art movement is similar to the surrealist movement in that it prescribes a mechanism for obtaining inspiration. Psychedelic art is informed by the notion that altered states of consciousness produced by psychedelic drugs are a source of artistic inspiration. Innovative typography and hand-lettering, including warping and transposition of positive and negative spaces.Phosphenes, spirals, concentric circles, diffraction patterns, and other entoptic motifs.Morphing of objects or themes and sometimes collage.Extreme depth of detail or stylization of detail. ![]()
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